Bundled Up Two Year Old with Santa! Old Real Photo Postcard oil on masonite feeling to me one part

feeling to me one part Victorian and one part Texas

The case reminds me of a bit of a submarine

I believe the images are screen prints on cardboard

with some nice warming to the surface of the pine

10 5/8" t x 7 1/4" w x 3/8" thick

Bundled Up Two Year Old with Santa! Old Real Photo Postcard oil on masonite feeling to me one partSuch a delight to find this one in New Hampshire the other day, reminding one of the enduring and I think enduringly strange tradition of having children photographed with "Santa Claus." This Santa looks perhaps Inuit or Native American to me, and the set up, with painted backdrop and what appears like gravel underfoot, with some fabric bunched up in it too, looks as if having seen better days. Then this bundled up child, two years and four months